3n2 THE FUR SEALS OF THE PRIBILOF ISLy^NDS. 



positions; sometimes beciiuse they are late arrivals. The killiiis- cUised this year on 

 July 37, and is never continued later than the 1st of August. Those arriving after 

 that time are exempt from driving, and as kilhible seals are found to the last, it is not 

 unreasonable to supi)ose that some arrive after August 1 for the lirst time. 



ZAPAUNl GULLY. 



There is a long shallow gulch in Zapadiii, north of the middle ])art winding (hiwn 

 to Southwest P>ay. There are many virgins in the last 4 or ."» harems at the toii with 

 many regular cows among tiiem. Tiiis long gulch is a concave sandy track where 

 many pups gather and where many bulls light. It was the scene of coustaiit lighting 

 at the time of the original counting of the rookt^ry. Many dead pups are here. 

 Ninety are couTited trodden in the sand; mostly, but not all, small and rotten, 

 i'robably V20 could be found. There are no rocks to hide them. As 1 stand on the 

 ])arapet above I can see over the whole space, but have no glass. One newly-born 

 imj) IS in the gulch, and several pods of from :M) to UH> older pups are ]ilaying about. 

 This Zapadni gully' is a place where pups are eisily killed as well as easily seen. 

 Very few dead pu]>s are to be seen on Zapadni except on the sandy gully. The live 

 ones pile up and sleep on the dead ones. 



There are few wet cows here, so far from the sea. Virgin cows tliate:in get away 

 dash for the sea. One bull seizes a cow and i)rings her back. Forty of them ape 

 going dowTi the canyon now like ludosf iaki. 



I come over through the quarreisonu', bulls to a. green clitf over the gully, a better 

 point of observation. I can see more deail pui)s here even th;i,n on Tolstoi. The 

 conditions in the lattcn' i)lace are the same, but the sands are less concave and broader, 

 with the side, not the end, open to the sea. There are 50 harems in Zapadni gully. 



Three other dead pups are seen among the bachelors. 



Where so few instincts are demanded as in the case of the seal they are necessarily 

 very intense. Knowledges of place, of nnither, of pup, of reproduction, of catching 

 tish, of protection and retention of harem, are the principal things the seal has to 

 know. These he knows automatically, each one as well as another. 



Another dead cow and a dead bull lie rotting; and more dead pups are among 

 the bachelors, 2 on the rocks. Doubtless there are more dead pups crushed anu)ng the 

 rocks than appear. It is as easy to see into a grizzly bear's lair as into harems in 

 the center of the great masses. 



Two very little (jows, jtrobably virgins, are on tlie edge of harems among bachelors 

 guarded by a half bull. Another is seen in the northernmost harem. 



The '2 virgins and the half bull all take to the water. The bull tries to rouiul 

 them up in the sea: seizes one and tries to drag her ashore, but fails. The other 

 tries to get ashore and he i)reveuts lier. There is no doubt that these cows are virgins. 

 They are still rounded up in the water, though one cow keejts trying to get ashore. 

 A little cow lies on the rocks wet. She dives into the sea out of sight. A bidl tries 

 to catch her. Another bull close by guards a cow with a pup and a virgin. The 

 virgin gets away to sea. The virgin 2-yearolds are plainly visible everywhere, but 

 there is nothing to be seen on Zapadni that looks like a yearling cow. 



' When this gull} was couuted on August U luorts th:ui liOO pujis were fouuil clo:id in it. 



